Wichita eagle., 1887-11-27
WET DAY FOR ATLANTA
THE PR0HIBITI0NISTS LOSE THE
FIGHT.
One Thousand Votes in Favor Of
Open SalOOns--A Long, Hard
and Bitter Struggle.
International Arbitration Meeting in New
York-Ex-Senat0r Jones Friends Con-
clude to Take Care Of Him.
The Freezing Weather General Over the
Same Portions of the Country Affected
by the Late DrOuth.
PROHIBITION NO MORE.
The Ants Win the Fight at Atlanta by
Over LOCO Majority.

ATLANTA. Nov. 26-After the most
heated contest on record in the state OF
Georgia, Atlanta today voted against pro
hibition. The fight has been an especi-
ally bitter one For several months the
citizens have been engaged in the contest.
Meetings have been held almost every
night, and local speakers and foreign
statesmen have stumped the county from
almost every curbstone in the city and
every cross road in tire county. Early in
the campaign the prohibitionists leased
the largest warehouse in the city and
fitted it up with seating capacity for 5000
people Almost nightly that building has
been filled and such scenes of wild en-
thusiasm are rarely witnessed. Almost
every minister in the city preached pro-
hibition from his pulpit Sunday after
Sunday. Both sides had full campaign
funds and managed their respective
causes for all they were worth.
The negro vote was the bone of
contention. and was the balance of power.
Each side made the most strenuous endeav-
Ors 10 secure it in every way possible. The
negroes were considerably divided on the
subject, though the majority of them voted
with the prohibitionistS, One OF the
features of the contest has been the active
part taken By many women of the city.
Several of the churches organized commit
tees from among their female members.
who took an active part in the campaign.
They organized the women of the colOred
churches into societies. and met with them
and prayed with them day after day. The
result OF their work was shown today by
the appearance of large numbers
of women at the polls with blue
and sandwiches at every polling place and
conducted prayer meetings and singing
CruSadeS in the open air. Fulton county,
in which Atlanta is located, voted two
years ago on the same question and went
for prohibition by a majority Of 22S out of
about 5000 votes The registration this
time exceeded that of last year by 1000
votes. The principal fight made on prohi-
bition during the compaign was that it
did not prohibit and that intoxicating
drinks could be openly purchased Gin
number of places throughout the city
which paid taxes to the United States gov
eminent for the sale Of whisky Thous-
ands of gallons have been sent in each
month from cities around Atlanta from
which it was almost as easy to get jug as
it was at bars in the city. The
ants claim that prohibition in
jured the city which was receiving
$4,000 a year in whisky license, without
decreasing in the slightest the amount of
whisky sold in the city. The prohibitionists,
on the other hand, claimed that Atlanta
has never had prohibition; that while iC
was so voted two years ago, the licenses
then existing did not expire, some of them,
until almost wear ago, and that since
that time the domestic wine clause in the
local option bill allowed many places in
the city by which the law could be easily
evaded. This was, however IT m died 10y
the last legislature, which put license of
$4,000 on all wine rooms, which license
viii go into effect after January l. The
city has gone wet by prob
ably LOCO majority. Great enthusiasm
preYSiIs on the streets